Next week sees the retirement of the man described by Barack Obama as “the most popular politician on earth”. President Luis Inácio Lula de Silva of Brazil, known simply as Lula, steps down after eight years in office, with a stratospheric approval rating of about 80 per cent. As a result, the Brazilian presidential election on October 3 will be a celebration of the past, as much as a signpost to the future. The almost certain winner will be Lula’s hand-picked successor, Dilma Rousseff.
被巴拉克•歐巴馬(Barack Obama)形容爲「全世界最具人望的政治家」將於下週卸任。執政8年後,支持率高達80%的巴西總統路易斯•伊納西奧•盧拉•達席爾瓦(Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva)——人們簡稱他盧拉——就要下臺了。因此,10月3日的巴西總統大選既是一場歡送過去的慶典,也是通向未來的一個路標。盧拉親手挑選的接班人——迪爾瑪•羅塞芙 (Dilma Rousseff)幾乎肯定會當選。